During World War II, what opportunities did Germany miss to turn the tables?

Updated on military 2024-02-16
15 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-02-06

    During World War II, Germany missed at least three turnarounds. <>The most important turning point in the Battle of Britain was that the Luftwaffe underestimated the role of British radar, believing that radar was not important, and switched to bombing cities. If the Luftwaffe chose to continue to attack the British radar station at that time, and then paralyzed the radar in the English Channel area and lost the monitoring ability, this would at least drag the British Air Force and make the Air Force unable to effectively control the sea surface from the air, so that the German Sea Lion Plan could be implemented and send the German Army to the British Isles, plus the psychological impact of the blitzkrieg at that time still existed, and with the high-quality German Army at that time, in the face of the British who were limited to panic at that time, the German army should be able to take the British Isles quickly.

    There is also the fate that Germany undoubtedly had a good time in World War II and almost unified Europe, but in the end it went to the fate of failure. At that time, Germany had the ability to win World War II, but there was a problem with the supreme command. I think it's all Hitler's problem.

    When the Germans had reached the Canal 20 miles from Dunkirk, Hitler ordered the army not to advance, and instead let Goering's air force end the lives of 300,000 British and French troops. The final result is also known to everyone.

    In addition, I think one of Hitler's most wrong decisions was to attack the Soviet Union, although the German army at that time had fought many battles and ended in victory, but at the same time their own losses were also huge, and they did not carry out a very sufficient supply of resources to attack the Soviet Union, which made the German army have the problem of insufficient resources in the later period。If the German army at that time chose to recuperate and then unite with Japan to attack the Soviet Union, then the Soviet Union had a high probability of losing at this time.

    The point of view is vulgar, welcome to complain.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-05

    During World War II, Germany missed at least three turnarounds. Personally, I feel that they will definitely lose if they cooperate with Japan, Japan has nothing to do, and they still cooperate with them, and I don't know what Hitler thought.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-04

    During World War II, Germany missed an opportunity to turn the tables in an air battle with the British.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-03

    During World War II, Germany missed at least three turnarounds.

  5. Anonymous users2024-02-02

    During World War II, Germany missed at least three turnarounds.

  6. Anonymous users2024-02-01

    Germany will either insist on picking up Britain, or it will have to pack up the USSR quickly. To quickly clean up the USSR, at the beginning of the war had to declare a general mobilization, and there could be no 8-hour work schedule. And it would be better if the Japanese Kwantung Army could really attack Siberia (those who say Nomenkan, forget, after the start of the Great Patriotic War, the USSR simply did not have any spare resources to reinforce Siberia, and the ammunition of the Siberian Corps could not withstand a month's war consumption, and the Kwantung Army just had to grit its teeth and hold on for a month).

  7. Anonymous users2024-01-31

    Missed several opportunities, such as attacking the Soviet Union, which was a really big mistake for Germany.

  8. Anonymous users2024-01-30

    There was no chance at all. It seems that there are also, and that is to stop after the acquisition of the Soviet Union.

  9. Anonymous users2024-01-29

    In fact, Germany was fighting a war that was doomed to lose.

  10. Anonymous users2024-01-28

    I don't know the chances of a comeback, but I know that as long as Germany doesn't ally with Japan, it won't be so miserable even if it loses.

  11. Anonymous users2024-01-27

    During World War II, Germany missed at least three or four chances.

  12. Anonymous users2024-01-26

    The Battle of Stalingrad is now considered to be a turning point in World War II (and, of course, Germany's defeat). Since then, the myth of Nazi Germany's invincibility has been shattered, and Germany has changed from strategic offensive to strategic defense, while the allies have gradually changed from strategic defense to strategic offensive. Therefore, when the celebration of the "60th anniversary of the victory of the world anti-fascists" was held in Russia, there was no objection from all countries.

    The Battle of Stalingrad was unprecedented in scale and arguably the largest battle not only in World War II, but even in the history of warfare so far! At the end of the battle, the Germans were annihilated by 1.5 million and lost 3,500 tanks, 10,000 artillery pieces and 3,000 aircraft.

  13. Anonymous users2024-01-25

    The Battle of Stalingrad, in which Germany suffered a major setback, shattered the myth of invincibility.

    And the last battle was the Battle of Berlin.

    The Battle of Berlin, also known as the Battle of Berlin (April 16 to May 9, 1945), was the last strategic offensive campaign carried out by the Soviet army in the Soviet-German War of World War II.

    May 9, 1945 representative of the German High Command WField Marshal Keitel, in Berlin signed the unconditional surrender to the Soviet and Allied expeditionary forces. Throughout the campaign, the Soviet army captured 380,000 German soldiers, captured more than 1,500 tanks and self-propelled guns, and 4,500 aircraft.

    The victory in this battle marked the end of German fascism and the end of the war in Europe.

  14. Anonymous users2024-01-24

    Hey, I think: first of all, the population difference between the Soviet Union and Germany is too far, one is more than 100 million, and the other is only about 30 million. Secondly, although the Germans were strong in combat, the patriotism of the Soviets was not in vain.

    Third, even if the Soviet Union is destroyed, the Soviet partisans will burn Hitler to the ground, and one day the railroad will destroy you. Ambush which officer one day again!

    All in all, military, economic, political considerations, Germany could not have won this war! ”

    The man who was adopted by the landlord was indeed quite right, and it was true that as Clausewitz said, there could be many defeats in battle, but not once in strategy. Germany's first strategic mistake was at Dunkirk in France, and even though the main forces of the German army did not keep up with the Panzer Vanguard, Hitler's decision to stop the ground attack and only carry out the air strike did cause the first major strategic mistake. This mistake directly affected the series of events that later opened up the battlefield on the Western Front, and if the Anglo-French forces were wiped out at Dunkirk, Britain would undoubtedly suffer a devastating blow, but Germany did not have it, but chose to carry out only air strikes.

    The second major strategic mistake was the German air strike on Britain, which resulted in the loss of more than 2,000 pilots and more than 4,000 aircraft by the Germans, and there is no doubt that these losses could not be recovered during the subsequent German invasion of the Soviet Union (although these losses had little impact on the overall strength of Germany). If the Germans had only carried out harassing strikes against Britain with only a portion of their air force, I believe that these air losses would have given the Germans a better chance of invading the Soviet Union.

    The third major strategic blunder was the German invasion of Yugoslavia. First of all, the operation delayed Barbarossa for at least four weeks, which was a primary factor in the defeat of the German army in Moscow. This was also recognized by the senior generals of the German army before and after the fact.

    Secondly, in order to maintain the occupied zone and clear the partisan forces, the Germans stationed Army Group E and 13 Italian divisions. If Army Group E and Italian troops were to be thrown into the Soviet-German battlefield, the situation of insufficient troops in the initial period would have been considerably improved, and it would even become the "last straw" that broke the camel's back. Third, in Yugoslavia, the German army has long been mired in a quagmire from which it cannot get out, and the German army has repeatedly used a large number of troops to encircle and suppress Tito's guerrillas, but to no avail.

    Among them, there are many elite soldiers, and these troops have suffered a large number of ** here.

    There is a lot of controversy about the strategic mistakes of the German army on the Soviet-German battlefield, so I will not describe them here. In general, the first three strategic mistakes were fatal to the development of Germany's fortunes after that.

  15. Anonymous users2024-01-23

    LZ See for yourself if you can find the results you want.

    First, the Germans did not annihilate the 300,000 Anglo-French troops in Dunkirk during the Western Front campaign, making them the backbone of the Allied counterattack in the future.

    Second: Germany's resources could not withstand the long war attrition.

    Thirdly, Germany did not destroy the British Royal Air Force at the beginning of the war, which led to the defeat of the German army in the Battle of Britain, and the failure of the Sea Lion Project, so that Germany will be in the same two-front quagmire as it was during World War I.

    Fourth, the outbreak of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 awakened the United States, which had been in isolationism, and made the outbreak of World War II in full swing, awakening the powerful military and industrial power of the United States.

    Fifth: Germany did not defeat the Soviet Union in the first year of the Soviet-German war on June 22, 1941, so that the German army and the Soviet Union fell into a long-term tug-of-war.

    Sixth: If the Soviet Union had not been defeated in the first year, but had been able to quickly capture Moscow, the heart of Soviet power, the Soviet military and civilian will have been greatly shaken. However, due to Hitler's erroneous command of the war situation, he did not listen to Guderian's opinion on attacking Moscow first, but ordered the armored army of the ** Army Group to attack Kiev and then attack Moscow, so that the German army wasted two months of precious time, and when the German army returned to Moscow, the morale of the German army was greatly reduced, and the armored forces also suffered a large number of losses.

    As a result, the Germans lost the best opportunity to capture Moscow at the beginning of the war, and when the Germans reached the city of Moscow, it was a grinding of crossbows.

    Seventh: The German High Command made a mistake in judging whether the Allies landed in Normandy or Calais, judging the location of the Allied landing as Calais led to the emptiness of the defense of the Normandy area, and the so-called Atlantic barrier was far from what Goebbels boasted, making it easy for the Allies to go ashore.

    Eighth: After the Allied landing, due to the absolute air superiority of the Allied forces, the German 4 Panzer Divisions did not arrive at the Normandy beach in time.

    Ninth: There was a serious mistake in the deployment of the 4 panzer divisions of the German high command against the German counterattack, Hitler deployed his troops inland, dozens of kilometers away from the beaches of Normandy, and the transfer of these 4 divisions had to be approved by Hitler. As a result, the German armored forces lost the best opportunity to counterattack.

    Tenth: The failure of the Ardennes counterattack of the German army deprived the Germans of all their armored forces and hastened the demise of the Third Reich.

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